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Re:Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant... by ajconway on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:35PM (#18898854)
A possibility to blacklist users is essential for a messaging service to be able to respond to abuse requests. I wonder how Ricochet plans to handle it.
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Re:Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant... by jstanley on Sunday January 13, 2019 @05:37PM (#18899160)
Ricochet isn't a "service". It's a peer-to-peer protocol.

There is nobody to send abuse complaints to, by design, and therefore no requirement to be able to respond to them.

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Re:Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant... by ajconway on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:01PM (#18899543)
Right, it’s a protocol with a reference implementation. It would just be nice to have a service with the kind of privacy properties this software provides on a mobile device where software distribution is very centralized and requires a tiny bit of censorship compliance.
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